San Diego’s minimum wage earners just got a $1.00 bump in their hourly wages. Effective January 1, 2017, San Diego’s minimum wage rate increased to $11.50 per hour. It’s the second raise workers received in the last six months. Just last June, San Diego voters approved increasing the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour. San Read more
Effective January 1, 2017, Florida’s Broward County has updated its Living Wage notice. This poster is required to be prominently posted at job sites operated by service providers operating in Broward County that have been awarded a living wage contract. The living wage which must be paid differs depending on whether or not the employer Read more
Starting Wednesday, January 11, 2017, employers in Morristown, New Jersey are required to provide paid sick leave to their private-sector employees. Sick time may be used for the employer’s own illness, injury, or health condition, or to obtain medical care, or for health reasons of a covered family member, and for public health emergencies. The Read more
San Francisco, CA employers perhaps have the most posting compliance responsibilities of any employers in the nation. For San Francisco employers, this year is no exception. Substantial changes were just made to three of the required workplace postings. Employers are required to post these updates immediately: Health Care Security Ordinance Paid Sick Leave Ordinance Paid Read more
Coming fast on the heels of the state’s updated Minimum Wage posting, the Maine Department of Labor has released a new version of the Maine Employment Security Law posting. The Maine Employment Security Law posting informs full- and part-time workers of their rights and responsibilities when filing for unemployment benefits. The most noticeable difference is a Read more
On December 31, 2016, New York’s minimum wage rate increased from $9.00 per hour to $9.70 per hour. Our readers may remember that the New York State Legislature passed legislation that would raise the state minimum wage for all hourly wage workers in accordance with a prescribed schedule. The following minimum wage rates, which are Read more
We warned you, and now it’s here – 2017 and the accompanying minimum wage increases for many states. Some states, such as Washington and Arkansas, are experiencing increases but do not require a posting update. Others, though, require the mandatory notice to be updated by the effective date of the increase mandated by law. Compliance Read more
More than a year after the launch of the state’s transformation of its unemployment insurance system into a “reemployment program,” the Nebraska Department of Labor has released an updated version of its Unemployment Insurance: Advisement of Benefits Rights notice. This mandatory posting informs those who qualify for unemployment benefits of their rights and responsibilities under Read more
